[GCFL-discuss] You Know You're From or In Pennsylvania If...

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

Siarlys
Well said.  Short and to the point.  There's hope for you yet. ;-)

I just want to elaborate on your comment about New York City, where I
live.

	Except, in New York City, which is made up of literally five
counties, each county government is called a burough.

The boros (that's how WE spell it, even if my spell-checker doesn't
agree) aren't governments, they are places -- each containing and
contained in a county.  Manhattan, The Bronx, and Queens are Manhattan,
Bronx, and Queens respectively, but Brooklyn is Kings' County, and
Staten Island is Richmond County.   A friend once told me that he lives
in the borough of Wilkes-Barre, PA, and I asked him what city that was
in.

greenBubble


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Subject: Re: [GCFL-discuss] You Know You're From or In Pennsylvania
If...


I can't believe this. Jeanene is ASKING my to comment on a subject?
(Where are the emoticons so I can put a friendly smile here, accepting
the joke in good humor?)

Siarlys

OK, here goes:

On Tue, 23 May 2006 16:11:18 -0700 "Discussion of the Good, Clean
Funnies List" <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> writes:

	Well, then, I want a little explanation of the following words
as you know them to be:
	
	hex sign -- a colorful design painted on barns and homes in
Pennsylvania Deutsch (they aren't really Dutch, they're German) areas,
believed to ward off spells, hexes, evil eyes, and other such hazards.
Also sold to tourists to take home to other states as interesting
decorations.
	
	"state store" -- in some states, sale of alcohol, or at least of
hard liquor, is limited to state-owned, or a limited number of
state-licensed stores, called "state stores." Corner grocery stores,
convenience stores, etc. don't carry it, althought they may in some
states be allowed to carry beer, and separate wine stores may or may not
be allowed.
	
	"sticky buns" -- a yeast roll with a sticky caramel syrup poured
over and hardened, often baked with pecans or walnuts, sometimes with
raisins.
	
	Scrapple -- I don't recall the exact ingredients, but it is a
gelatinous food made from the hooves and some internal organs of
slaughtered animals. Considered a delicacy in times when meat was scarce
and every bit had to be used.
	
	commonwealth -- the colonies of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
were commonwealths, meaning to a limited extent that the government
derived from the common agreement of whatever minority of the population
were considered full citizens (generally requiring ownership of a
certain value of property). Pennsylvania was originally a
proprietorship: the personal jurisdiction of the Penn family, and became
a commonwealth when the Penns were displaced. New York was a royal
dominion, New Jersey was granted to a couple of nobility as their
personal estate, Maryland was initially the proprietorship of Lord
Baltimore, but that didn't last either. Virginia and South Carolina were
crown colonies, ruled more or less directly by the king. But being so
far away, they did have their own representative assemblies. And then,
the people who lived in these places got their own ideas about how to
govern what, or some of them did. About a third of the colonial
population supported the revolution, another third opposed, and the
remaining third watched which way the wind was blowing, while profitting
from both sides at every opportunity.
	
	townships
	bouroughs
	
	The meaning of both terms varies, and often overlaps. "County"
was, in Europe, the domain of a count, less than an earl, who was less
than a duke, who was less than a king. What we call county is in England
called a shire, which is the domain in which a shire-reeve (sheriff) is
responsible for law and order. Townships in New York are
semi-unincorporated areas, smaller than a county, larger than a city,
which in Wisconsin would be called a town. Except, in New York City,
which is made up of literally five counties, each county government is
called a burough. Burough can also mean an unincorporated rural area, or
be used in the sense that village is in other states: an incorporated
municipality smaller than a city. I think burough may be used in place
of county in some states, but I'm not sure. (I don't know everything).
	
	I have always assumed that township, commonwealth and borough
are the same thing as county, but now that doesn't seem quite right...
	
	Jeanene
	
	



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